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It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend it. And that is a political choice that each of us has to make.
— Rachel Carson, Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1956)

1mo ago

We are at war with Nature; whichever side wins, we lose.

1mo ago

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From Mitochondria to Minds: The Illustrated Science of the Psychedelic Dream Called Life

Pulsating beneath it all is an insistence that it is not too late to change the catastrophic course of ecology, that it can only be done by listening closely and creatively to nature's own silent lessons, intimating that our mightiest instrument of resilience is rapturous wonder.

1mo ago

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend it. And to defend it, you must love it.

2mo ago

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How to See a Bird: Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s Exquisite Illustrated Field Guide to the Wonder of the Winged

We forget, and need constant reminding, that the fruit of wonder as well as its fulcrum is not knowledge — none of our discoveries have kept three billion birds from vanishing between Carson's lifetime and ours — but love.

3mo ago

We are now at a point where we must decide whether we are to have a future on this planet, not because of the atomic bomb, but because of the way we have treated the world.

4mo ago

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